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Jane E. Dutton Moona Kärkkäinen, Jasmin Pellicier, Anna-Maija Pirskanen

Jane E. Dutton Moona Kärkkäinen, Jasmin Pellicier, Anna-Maija Pirskanen. Introducing Jane Dutton. Sociologist, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior Research focus on individuals and their human behavior in organizations

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Jane E. Dutton Moona Kärkkäinen, Jasmin Pellicier, Anna-Maija Pirskanen

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  1. Jane E. Dutton Moona Kärkkäinen, Jasmin Pellicier, Anna-Maija Pirskanen

  2. Introducing Jane Dutton • Sociologist, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior • Research focus on individuals and their human behavior in organizations • Extensive record of collaborativeacademic publications, research articles and books • Distinguished scholar with academic awards and honors

  3. Thinking and Research • How organizational conditions strengthen capabilities of individuals and firms • How high quality connections, positive meaning and emotions contribute to individual and organizational strengths • Explores compassion and organizations, resilience and organizations, as well as energy and organizations • Explores organizational adaptation, focusing on how strategic issues are interpreted and managed in organizations, as well as issues of organizational identity and change

  4. Reflections on course themes Resilience: • Emotional carrying capacity (ECC) • Expressing emotions constructively as a source of resilience • Virtuous organization: A work environment where individuals and teams can express emotions in a constructive manner. • Expressing emotions as sharing information and facilitating learning from failure • Compassion as a generative force • Fostering healing, adaptability, resilience and greater effectiveness • Fostering imagination about the possibilities of organizations • Compassion organizing: Socially coordinated compassion within an organization • Leading in times of trauma • Support and compassion throughout organization improves its ability to maintain high performance in difficult times and improve its future prosperity • Shortening the disruption of operations and increasing employee commitment

  5. Reflections on course themes Renewal: • High-quality connections within organizations • Mutual positive regard, trust, and active engagement • Respectful engagement: ability to listen and support your colleagues in creating an environment that confirms self-worth and competence, thus increasing motivation and commitment • Joint growth • How to come alive as an individual • How to bring life to work units • Emerging processes or leaders that enable life in organizations • Issue interpretation in organizational change

  6. Reflections on course themes Innovation: • Job Crafting • An employee changing/expanding a job description to align with their motives, strengths and passions • More meaningful work • An individual’s desire to make a difference or open new doors in their career, can create innovation within a company • Engaged employees are most likely to build new products and services, attract new customers and drive innovation. (State of the American workplace,Gallup Inc, 2013)

  7. Dutton’s Recommendations • Compassion and cooperation • Conversational dynamics: active listening and joint problem solving • Methods of narrative inquiry: research tools that put focus on lived experience • Meaning and value of professional relationships • Creation of micro-communities (The Compassion Lab)

  8. Thank you!

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